Impact of snow-making technology improvement on ski season length in China under climate change

Yan FANG; SCOTT Daniel; STEIGER Robert; Bihu WU; Yiyi JIANG

doi:10.18402/resci.2020.06.17

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Vol. 42, Issue 6, 1210 (2020)

Impact of snow-making technology improvement on ski season length in China under climate change

Yan FANG¹, SCOTT Daniel², STEIGER Robert³, Bihu WU^4、*, and Yiyi JIANG¹

Author Affiliations

¹School of Recreational Sports and Tourism, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, China

²Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L3G1, Canada

³Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 526020 Innsbruck, Austria

⁴International Center for Recreation and Tourism Research, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

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DOI: 10.18402/resci.2020.06.17 Cite this Article

Yan FANG, SCOTT Daniel, STEIGER Robert, Bihu WU, Yiyi JIANG. Impact of snow-making technology improvement on ski season length in China under climate change[J]. Resources Science, 2020, 42(6): 1210 Copy Citation Text

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Fig. 1. Current ski season length of ski areas in China

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Fig. 2. Spatial distribution and location of selected ski resorts and weather stations in the study

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Fig. 3. Projected changes in technically produced snow (current snowmaking technology)

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Fig. 4. Projected changes in technically produced snow (improved snowmaking technology)

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Fig. 5. Impact of snow-making technology improvement on ski season length of ski areas in China under RCP 4.5

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Fig. 6. Impact of snow-making technology improvement on ski season length of ski areas in China under RCP 8.5

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度日因子/（mm ℃^{-1 .}d^-1）	区域	文献
1.4~6.9	中国东北（洮儿河流域）	尹雄锐等^[23]
3.1	乌鲁木齐河源1号冰川	刘时银等^[24]
3.4	天山（琼台兰冰川）	张勇等^[22]
5.9	横断山
8.5	唐古拉山（冬克玛底冰川）	谯程骏等^[25]
5.3	扎当冰川	吴倩如等^[26]
1.7	河西内陆河流域（石羊河）	高鑫等^[27]
4.0	河西内陆河流域（黑河）
2.4	河西内陆河流域（北大河）
3.4	河西内陆河流域（疏勒河）
4.1	河西内陆河流域（党河）

Table 1. Degree-day factors in China

气温/℃	区域	文献
1.9~6.0	中国	韩春坛等^[28]
1.0~7.8	中国	Chen等^[29]
0.0~2.0	长江源区	刘俊峰等^[30]
0.0~3.0	三江源区	冯曦等^[31]
0.0 (1000 hPa)	北京	张琳娜等^[32]
-4.0 (850 hPa)
1.9~5.7	天山	张雪婷等^[33]

Table 2. Temperature for separating solid and liquid precipitations in China

参数	设置	资料来源
滑雪所需的积雪深度（包括自然降雪和人工造雪）	30 cm	访谈;Scott等^[15];Abegg等^[34]
人工造雪时期	11月1日—次年4月1日	访谈;网络资料^ⓐ
人工造雪适宜温度	-5℃（现有）/-2℃（提高）	访谈;Snowathome^[5]
人工造雪量	10 cm/d	访谈;Steiger^[14]

Table 3. Parameter setting of Chinese ski resorts

区域	省份	RCP 4.5							RCP 8.5
		2020s		2050s		2080s			2020s		2050s		2080s
				现有技术	提升技术		现有技术	提升技术		现有技术	提升技术		现有技术	提升技术	现有技术	提升技术	现有技术	提升技术
华北	北京	-19	-7	-61	-21	-80	-39		-22	-8	-79	-37	-97	-86
	山西	-8	-4	-23	-11	-40	-16		-8	-5	-40	-17	-68	-54
	天津	-5	-4	-14	-10	-22	-15		-6	-5	-23	-16	-64	-35
	内蒙古	-1	-1	-4	-4	-6	-6		-1	0	-6	-6	-13	-12
	河北	-7	-3	-15	-7	-20	-13		-7	-2	-19	-13	-31	-27
东北	黑龙江	-1	-1	-4	-3	-5	-4		-2	-1	-6	-5	-10	-8
	吉林	-2	-1	-5	-3	-9	-6		-2	-1	-9	-5	-17	-14
	辽宁	-4	-4	-13	-10	-19	-13		-6	-5	-19	-14	-33	-32
西北	新疆	-2	-2	-5	-4	-7	-6		-2	-2	-8	-6	-16	-13
	甘肃	-5	-3	-9	-8	-13	-12		-4	-3	-13	-11	-25	-22
	宁夏	-3	-3	-10	-10	-14	-14		-3	-4	-14	-14	-30	-25
	青海	-1	-1	-5	-4	-8	-6		-6	-2	-8	-6	-21	-17
	陕西	-8	-5	-23	-11	-34	-17		-9	-6	-36	-17	-65	-41
华东	山东	-18	-7	-54	-23	-76	-39		-23	-7	-75	-38	-95	-85
华中	河南	-21	-8	-51	-20	-66	-33		-22	-8	-68	-35	-92	-75

Table 4. Projected changes in ski season length under different climate change scenarios (%)

区域	省份	RCP 4.5			RCP 8.5
区域	省份	2020s	2050s	2080s	2020s	2050s	2080s
华北	北京	29	47	45	31	46	12
	山西	13	22	34	13	33	20
	天津	8	11	15	9	15	35
	内蒙古	4	5	5	6	5	7
	河北	15	20	17	15	17	12
东北	黑龙江	4	4	5	4	4	6
	吉林	5	7	7	5	9	8
	辽宁	11	14	16	12	16	10
西北	新疆	5	6	7	5	7	8
	甘肃	10	10	9	10	10	11
	宁夏	11	11	10	11	11	15
	青海	5	7	8	6	8	10
	陕西	13	23	29	14	31	34
华东	山东	32	41	41	34	41	11
华中	河南	32	42	41	32	41	19

Table 5. Increase in ski season length with improved snowmaking technology (d)

Yan FANG, SCOTT Daniel, STEIGER Robert, Bihu WU, Yiyi JIANG. Impact of snow-making technology improvement on ski season length in China under climate change[J]. Resources Science, 2020, 42(6): 1210

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